Getting started where.

Hi I have a few questions about where to start in learning to program on my mac.
Powerbook G3 500mhz 1GB RAM Mac OS X 10.4.11
60GB disk with SuperDuper Sandbox and Macintosh drive volumes set up.
1. Can it be done on such old hardware? I am new to this aspect and don't really know about capabilities.
2. Is Tiger Cocoa? Or do I need it?
3. Are there "getting started" guidelines, requirements, and tutorials available on the Apple website anywhere? I haven't been able to find too much other than Xcode 3.0 download which seems to require Leopard, and then this here discussions forum. Being as I'm new to this area, I'm sure I would be quite confused and lost with the terminology and looking through the various topics of this forum.
4. Does Xcode only come with Macs with Leopard? They say it is on every Mac but I can't seem to find it in my Utilities and I don't recall seeing it in the Installer as an option.
5. If I got the required tools, would I install and run them in the Sandbox volume or the other?
I'm not really sure where I want to go with this but I'm wanting to at least dabble in it to see where it leads.
I visited the Apple Developer Connection website but I'm not quite sure I belong there yet.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks

shermo wrote:
1. Can it be done on such old hardware? I am new to this aspect and don't really know about capabilities.
Absolutely! I used to program on my old MacPlus. Of course, it wasn't the base model. I had upgraded it to 2.5 MB RAM and two (count 'em!) floppy drives.
It will be quite a while before you exhaust the capabilities of your "old" machine.
2. Is Tiger Cocoa? Or do I need it?
Cocoa is just the name for Apple's latest user interface library. If you want to write fancy applications, that is how you want to do it. You don't have to start there. You can work on plain old C and C++ programs while you are still learning.
3. Are there "getting started" guidelines, requirements, and tutorials available on the Apple website anywhere? I haven't been able to find too much other than Xcode 3.0 download which seems to require Leopard, and then this here discussions forum. Being as I'm new to this area, I'm sure I would be quite confused and lost with the terminology and looking through the various topics of this forum.
Not too much. Very, very few people start programming on the Macintosh. They usually learn programming in school on some other platform and then learn Mac programming on their own. After 25 years, the Mac is just now starting to get some respect from academia and industry - emphasis on the "starting to" part.
Consequently, there isn't much in the way of "beginning" programming on the Mac. But, of course, the Mac is still UNIX. There are lots of tutorials and other opportunities to learn C or Java on UNIX. From there you can do something interesting.
4. Does Xcode only come with Macs with Leopard? They say it is on every Mac but I can't seem to find it in my Utilities and I don't recall seeing it in the Installer as an option.
It is an optional install on the DVD. You will probably have to stick with the version of Xcode on your 10.4 disk. That isn't such a big deal. You are really only missing out on a bunch of Interface Builder and editor bugs in the newer Xcodes.
5. If I got the required tools, would I install and run them in the Sandbox volume or the other?
I'm not sure what a Sandbox volume is. You will install Xcode into /Developer on your startup volume. You can put your projects wherever you want.
I visited the Apple Developer Connection website but I'm not quite sure I belong there yet.
There isn't much there for those of us who aren't paying for the premium memberships.
The key thing to do is have patience.

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